Proper packing (was: Need advice)

Mybe not, but practical experience has taught me that no matter how much you pay, the package is likely to be dropped at some point. You still need to pack it properly, to withstand this. However careful they claim to be, things can go wrong. Personally, I'd rather spend more time in packing a rare device properly than have it wrecked. And to return to the ASR33, I'd not want to move one myself, say on the back seat of a car, without either tying down or reemoving the typing unit. Well, I've never paied for support on anything, but however experienced the techs are, there will surely be soemthing they don't know. So however mcuh you pay, there wil lbe problems they can't solve quickly. Same with shipping old hardware. You may pay for a better service, but the parcel could still slip from soembody's hands. -tony